In my previous posts I’ve discussed how to fetch data from Twitter and massage it into the form that is needed when observing data in Sierra. I also talked about how to “POST” that data to Sierra so that it’s available to query. In this post I’m going to discuss the process of actually querying that data once it’s in Sierra.
Before you read on you may want to browse over the Sierra documentation. These docs list all of the REST calls that are available on Sierra. In my example below I’ll be using the “connections” call.
I should also note that I’ve made some additions to the source code that I’ve used across all of these posts. That code is available along with the rest of the Sierra sample code. In particular I’ve made the code aware of command-line options that specify whether you are “observing” (-o) or “querying” (-q). You can also define all of the needed usernames and passwords via the command-line as well.
